PSA does not regrade your cards when you reholder them. People are confusing the fact that they change labels as a re-grade.
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It’s fine to send them in. No grade will be changed.
If it looks like any damage has occurred, the card will be returned ‘as is’.
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I’ve had plenty of my cards re-encapsulated for what it’s worth, including some real valuable ones, and have never had any issue. I just wish the things were scratch proof 
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You are wrong Scott, they do, in fact , re-grade them on a reholder.
As you can clearly see, the damage on the cases (47 of them to be exact) were consistent and not caused by rough handling. These were defect cases right from PSA.
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IF there is damage. You are highlighting an exception, not the standard.
PSA were aware of the damage, being cosmetic damage to the case and nowhere near the card. After a call to Michael, he confirmed it is standard procedure for a re-holder.
The standard review/re-grade service is the “review” service.
The standard put your card in a new case service is the “re-holder” service. They usually give you a new label as well.
If you are highlighting how significantly damaged items are re-graded, or cards claimed as damaged by psa are reviewed, that is an exception to all services.
They do not normally re-grade “re-holder” cards. Outside of knowing this for a fact, it would make the review service completely redundant.
Oz…unless there’s case damage that could affect the card inside, a grader would never even see the encapsulated card. Even ones with damage that a grader looks at, if he sees a possible problem it’ll simply be returned to the submitter.
Now are there exceptions to this? I’m sure there are but I don’t personally know of any.
The only damage to my cases were hairline cracks at the top of the right hand corner label at the front.
There was no other damage.
I can only go by what PSA told me both in email and by phone. If people don’t want to believe that, that’s fine.
Not disputing that oz. Mike copied and stated exactly what the policy says, as he must. It would take hundreds of entries though to go through the entire spectrum of “damages”.
It is safe to say that a little scratch above the label would be handled differently than a chunk of plastic taken out of the bottom of the case.
A quick example, a 220 card recase order came in (from Eddie B.) that had the same little scratch defect which obviously didn’t affect the cards. They were not regraded and all 220 were recased in their exact same number.
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